TODD Not me.

ERIC Alright.

TODD I could never do that. Not to TJ.

ERIC Or Shayleen …

TODD No. Her, either.

ERIC I see. I get that. (Beat.) I totally get it …

TODD nods and checks his watch again. A glance over at his friend.

TODD Yep. (Beat.) But you … you know … whatever … you could probably … you know. (Beat.) I’m just saying …

ERIC What?

TODD Nothing. (Beat.) Just … you’re braver than me that way …

ERIC No, bro, come on … same thing …

TODD What? How?

ERIC With Faye. (Beat.) Please.

TODD No, that’s not the same …

ERIC I’m not saying that. I’m not saying it’s the very same, but … it kinda amounts to the same. Pretty much.

TODD I guess.

ERIC For me it does … (Beat.) It’d kill her. Seriously. (Beat.) If I left …

TODD Yeah?

ERIC Yes. No question.

TODD You might be surprised …

ERIC Why do you say that?

TODD … just …

ERIC No, why? Tell me …

TODD ’Cause … listen to us, with these people that we’d rather be … these secret lives that we’d wanna have if we could … who says she’s not the very same way …?

ERIC … no …

TODD I’m just saying.

ERIC Yeah? (Beat.) You think?

TODD It’s possible … that’s all that I’m saying …

ERIC But … no. I’m like you. It’s, like, way too late …

TODD Maybe. Maybe so … only one kid, though.

ERIC And even if I did, I don’t even know what I’d … I mean, I guess I’d be one or the other … black or white, not like I am now … caught in the middle … but that’s …

TODD Yeah?

ERIC Probably. Why not? (Beat.) Get all my white sins forgiven, or … you know … go the other way, even. A Black Panther or some shit. Fighting the good fight. (Beat.) On one side or the other …

TODD Yeah? That’s what you’d do …?

ERIC I said I don’t even know … (Beat.) But yeah. Maybe.

TODD thinks about this, taking his friend in. With maybe even a greater appreciation of him than he ever had before.

TODD I know Karen would. In two seconds.

ERIC Really?

TODD Nigga, please …

ERIC Ha!

TODD I’m not even kidding …

ERIC Wow.

TODD Yep. (Beat.) Just the way it is.

ERIC And … do you know what she’d be? If she could?

TODD Nah … I dunno … I mean, maybe. Some kinda … business person. Like me … but not tied down by family. She’d travel and shit. Fuck Asian guys … she’s attracted to Asian guys, you believe that?

ERIC What?

TODD I’m just … over the course of time, you pick up these things … and I’ve discovered that. Asian dudes. Bruce Lee. His kid. A newscaster guy they have on ABC. (Beat.) That one dude on The Walking Dead. (Beat.) It adds up …